I have only played with the OLD-DB provider and I was able to update data. Nevertheless, I've heard that the OLE-DB provider is extremely sensitive. For example, if the value to update is larger than the field size the OLE-DB provider will choke (rather than truncating the value or telling you that the value is too big for the field.)

>Does anyone know if the foxpro OLE DB driver supports updating Foxpro databases?
>
>The following code uses ADO to connect and attempt to edit a simple foxpro table.
>If I use the ODBC connection string, it works. If I use the OLE DB connection string if causes an error something like
>
>"object or provider is not capable of performing the required operation"
>
>I have also being playing with visual studio .net, and get a similar problem. I can connect and retrieve data happily using the oledbdataadapter object, but updating, inserting or deleting foxpro tables fails every time.
>
>the code listing (please change the file paths and table names if you want to try it)
>
>
>&&&here is the ole db connection string
>constr='Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=C:\FXCLIENT\CSDATA\CSDATA.DBC;Mode=Share Deny None;Extended Properties="";User ID="";Password="";Mask Password=False;Cache Authentication=False;Encrypt Password=False;Collating Sequence=MACHINE'
>
>&&&here is the odbc connection string
>constr='DSN=testpms;UID=;PWD=;SourceDB=C:\fxclient\CSdata\csdata.dbc;SourceType=DBC;Exclusive=No;BackgroundFetch=Yes;Collate=Machine;'
>
>
>&&here is the odbc connection string
>
>
>
>con=Createobject("adodb.connection")
>
>con.connectionstring=constr
>con.Open
>Sqlstr="select client,surname from clients where client='A0001'"
>rs=Createobject("adodb.recordset")
>rs.cursortype=2
>rs.locktype=3
>rs.Open(Sqlstr,con)
>
>If Not rs.Eof
> Messagebox("record found")
> rs.Fields("surname").Value="test update"
> rs.Update
>Else
> Messagebox("record not found")
>Endif
>rs.close
>con.Close
>RELEASE rs
>RELEASE con